Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Sepia Saturday 66 : 19th March 2011

From the Collection of the National Maritime Museum

There have to be some perks for the poor old devil who administers the Sepia Saturday Blog and one of the main perks is that I get to choose the weekly archive photograph which accompanies the call for posts. Those who know me will be not in the slightest surprised to see a pub featured. The pub in question is the Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich and the photograph - which comes from the collection of the British National Maritime Museum - was taken in 1912. The pub, which was built in 1837, still stands today and is now a very plush establishment indeed.

Naval battles, pints of beer, shabby old pubs - there is plenty for the "themers" to work with for Sepia Saturday 66. But remember, you don't have to follow the theme. All you need do is to share your old photographs with the rest of us by posting on or near Saturday 19th March 2011 and linking your post to the Linky List below. If you are new to Sepia Saturday take a look at the brief explanation below, if you are an old friend all you need do is post, link and comment. Cheers!

SEPIA SATURDAYis a weekly meme which encourages bloggers to publish and share old images and photographs. All that is required is for contributors to post an old image (it doesn't have to be in sepia) and provide a few words in explanation. If you could provide a link back to the Sepia Saturday Blog and visit as many of the other contributors as you can, it would also be appreciated. There is no weekly theme, as such, but some people like to use the archive image published with the weekly call as a kind of theme. There is no requirement to adopt such an approach : the choice of image is entirely up to you. Once you have published your Sepia Saturday post, add a link to that post to the Linky List published each week and leave a comment to let everyone know you are joining in.

28 comments:

Have not followed theme this week (although a real pint as opposed to a virtual pint would go down quite well at the moment). Also I seem to be very early ... so much so that I may have confused mr linky and have either not posted at all or have posted twice.

Alan you are a wonderful host but I never remember to check your post before I put mine up. Just trying to go through all albums I have and that can take a long time when one sits and reminisces at each one of them. Wouldn't miss for anything.QMM

a memer, and perhaps a themer indirectly though not quite reflected in my post per se, as i deal with St-Patrick here in montreal, the basilica and the parade. and when you speak of a parade, beers are in a foreseeable future, isn't it?!? and i had a beer while writing my post. does that count???see ya!!:)~HUGZ

I was so taken by the exterior texture of this pub that I was afraid to see how it had been modernized. Well my gracious me, the current circumstances are stunning. Certainly too rich a place for the common folk like me.

This week I remind people what high school was like for Gladys Kallman.

A little later than usual, but I had to work today so here she goes....bring out the bottles of...... I hope your weekend is fantastic Alan...it seems we've been a bit lucky (weatherwise) here the last few days!

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.